Inspired by the Jenga drinking game as posted on the webcomic drawn by my classmate from CMU, That Zac, Sam and I invented a Antiques Roadshow drinking game ( Read more... )

Before I left for Europe, I bought a used record player and a box of records from a young rockabilly couple, complete with little mohawk toddler and a chicken coop in the backyard. When I got back, I finally bought the new needle it needed to play, from J&S Phonograph Needles, the only store of its kind on the West Coast. It's been there for over ( Read more... )

I am so frustrated right now with these holier-than-thou college bureaucrats that I just want to spit. Study abroad is supposed to be an enriching, exciting adventure where I learn about different cultures and locations and all around have a great time ( Read more... )

The trip to the Outer Banks was pretty successful. I got some great pictures of crazy erosion and people who made some really bad choices about where to build their home or business ( Read more... )

I will be traveling approximately 7,800 miles in the next 3 weeks. I have about $50 in the bank right now.

I feel like I have a lot to do, but maybe if I don't count "making Christmas presents for several people", I'll be okay.

Maybe I'll just draw awesome pictures and hand them to people. It worked for Picasso.

Anyone on my Facebook should know that I play Scramble (basically Boggle) almost constantly. It's an excellent procrastination tool. Tonight's reason is a literature review for my thesis ( Read more... )

I set up an eFax number to take care of some annoying cross-country lease co-signing issues and have yet to getting around to disabling it (it requires a phone call). It's a 1-800 number and is apparently somewhat similar to a Brooklyn hotel's line because I keep getting accidental faxes ( Read more... )

Spiders love me. I don't know why. I just moved into a new house a week ago, out of the basement room so that I wouldn't have to deal with spiders dangling above my head, dive-bombing me on my way into the shower, or hiding in my pajamas and biting the hell out of me.

And yet, here I am half-asleep doing some /b/rowsing, and I see a movement on the ( Read more... )

So here's what's up.

This past weekend instead of going to barbecues or hell, BUMBERSHOOT, I moved. I moved my stuff, some of Joni's stuff, and stuff belonging to people who haven't lived there in months or years. We hauled two carloads to the dump (a novel experience), including 3 bags of weeds and thorny brambles that I cut/raked/pulled that had ( Read more... )

So I'm still not employed. I think it'll take me way too long to get the FBI to finish up my background / fingerprint check to have time to get deployed by FEMA this summer, and I can't wait that long to work anyway. It'll have to be for next year. I wish I'd considered it during school and been able to do the paperwork, but they didn't start ( Read more... )